Project manager sr - ST, Seattle WA

From the beginning, Starbucks set out to be a different kind of company. One that not only celebrated coffee and the rich tradition, but that also brought a feeling of connection. We are known for developing extraordinary leaders who share this passion and are guided by their service to others.

Are you passionate about delivering technology solutions that make a meaningful impact at an enterprise scale? We're looking for a project manager – Sr to lead complex software and hardware implementation programs that transform business capabilities, improve customer experiences, and drive operational excellence.

In this highly visible role, you'll partner with business leaders, technology teams, vendors, and executive stakeholders to deliver large-scale initiatives from strategy through execution. You'll be responsible for managing significant project investments, navigating complex dependencies, and ensuring successful outcomes across multiple work streams.

This is an opportunity to lead Digital initiatives that matter, influence key decisions, and help shape the future of our technology landscape.

• Drive end-to-end delivery of complex software, hardware, infrastructure, or enterprise platform implementations across multiple teams, vendors, and business functions.
• Own Financial Planning and Budget Governance
• Develop, manage, forecast, and report against multi-million-dollar project budgets, ensuring alignment to business objectives while identifying cost savings and investment opportunities.

• Build alignment across executives, business leaders, product teams, engineering, operations, and external vendors by proactively communicating status, risks, dependencies, and strategic decisions.

• Demonstrated experience leveraging and enabling AI solutions in a business environment.
• We are looking for candidates who not only use AI tools effectively in their day-to-day work, but who can also help drive adoption, identify practical use cases, and champion AI-enabled improvements across teams and processes.
• Candidates should be comfortable navigating emerging technologies.

• Comfortable, confident, and experienced operating in environments where requirements, priorities, or direction may not always be clearly defined.
• Strong candidates should demonstrate the ability to make sound decisions with incomplete information, adapt quickly to changing circumstances, provide structure where needed, and maintain forward momentum while bringing clarity and alignment to stakeholders.

• Drives complex, cross-functional enterprise projects, leading multiple efforts simultaneously.
• Leads high performing, cross-functional, often globally distributed teams.
• Works independently, with limited day-to-day guidance from senior program management leadership.
• Performs core project management duties, including guiding the project through formal approval and funding gates; developing a project plan that includes a detailed budget, project timeline, detailed task-driven schedule, project RACI and resource plan, and communication plan; and managing project execution from analysis/design through build, test, and deployment.
• When leading an Agile project, partners closely with the scrum master and product owner on all activities.
• Ensure that project status reports are relevant, transparent, and add value.
• Partners with relevant IT and…